This Friday Fast Five comes out in theaters all around the United States. It looks like stunt driver Sam Hubinette has his hood running Fast Five for promotion over the Road Atlanta weekend coming up in just under two weeks. The Fast Five movie brings characters back from the dead and fills the film with stars from all four movies.
I am sure you have heard the buzz around the Internet that Paul Walker’s Fast and the Furious Nissan Skyline was stolen out of a warehouse earlier this week. The theft has made the local news in Los Angeles and Chris Milano claims the car is valued at $75,000. The car was a Nissan Skyline GT-S that was converted to look like a GT-R that you can see above. The crime seems to have no leads from LAPD at the time. Chris Milano drives the purple AITRacing Nissan 350z in Formula Drift this year. You can follow the link and watch the KCAL 9 news coverage there at Jalopnik.
Source: http://jalopnik.com/5252387/car-thief-swipes-fast-and-furious-r34-nissan-gt+r?autoplay=true
Fast and the Furious 4: Full Length Trailer
If you remember some early reports they were taking the Drifting angle again and producing FF4. After watching this trailer I am not really sure what this movie is about at all? You see some CORR truck racing, drifting, old school muscle car drag racing, building chases, and much more convaluted confusion. Let’s also not forget in the first trailer they are stealing gas trucks. Less drama and more drifting hopefully but somehow deep down we doubt it.
Watch the trailer: http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/watchvideo/fast-and-the-furious-4-full-length-trailer-
We received a user tip last night that the Drift Speed S15 was being listed for sale on Craigslist in the Los Angeles Auto section. After doing some homework we couldn’t really find out much about the sale of the vehicle outside of the Craigslist ad. The car is listed at $25,000 asking price. It talks about how the car was built by WiseSquare for the American D1GP series and SEMA. The car was also featured in Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in the final scene of the movie. The car also was driven to a podium finish at the 2007 Formula D Long Beach Team Drift event getting 2nd place while driven by Mitsuru Haraguchi. To top it all off the car had a feature in Turbo Magazine to boot. Please contact Mina ytaka9@hotmail.com or 562-342-9000 for more info.
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The date is set for June 5th, 2009 according to Rottentomatoes.com. Today they also posted an exclusive trailer to the new FF4 film. We have been documenting information on the movie for you guys for quite some time now and we wanted to get you this update. If the trailer is a true reflection of the film it might not be to bad, definitly the best FF trailer to date. Then again, it is the Fast and Furious series and they have curve balled us before. To everyone on the Wrecked staff it almost feels like how Fast and the Furious 2 should of been to begin with.
Can you say Fast and the Furious OG flashback?
Paul Walker standing next to a R34 Skyline. Note the Turbonetics intercooler.
Vin Diesel doing a burnout in his old school ride!
Last but not least…….
Source: John Miles
Sam Hubinette took us on a little behind the scenes peak at what Fast and the Furious 4 will be like. He is stunt driving in the movie naturally since the film is based on Drifting. Here is a shot from the set, notice the R34 Nissan Skyline (blue) lined up with some American muscle ready to do battle.
Check this shot out….note that the second car seems to have at least two duplicates sitting next to it, perhaps we can expect to see that thing see some carnage!
Here are pictures of Sam in makeup before his Drifting sequence.
This is some production footage “leaked” of Fast and the Furious 4. We have a sneaky suspicion that it was leaked by Universal Pictures but oh well. We have been keeping you posted on what is happening with the film so here goes nothing. This footage looks like a mix of the four car race from the original Fast and the Furious and the parking garage races of Tokyo Drift (FF3). The movie is reportly focused mainly on Drifting but this possibly shows a tad otherwise. That is our Fast and the Furious 4 report for now, enjoy the fake start to a race from the film!
I know it’s easy to forget about all the stuff going on in Drifting but let’s NOT forget Formula D’s first International adventure this weekend in Singapore! Formula D reports that Andy Luk and Jim Liaw have already landed in Singapore to prepare for the event. Everyone is waiting eagerly to see how the event turns out here back in the States!
Here is a photo from the Formula D guys as they descend on Singapore.
Ryan and Jim catching up on work at the Singapore airport.
Here is Jim (Formula D) and Marcus (Binter) discussing the track setup for the weekend.
Getting ready for the weekend in Singapore! Our crew rolls in later during the week so watch out for updates.
If you want more information on the Singapore Drifting event, you can find it here.
Formula D Singapore Information
Funny last night when I hinted that I felt Hyundai would be the next manufacturer to run in Drifting we at Wrecked were really just speculating out our you know what….but we did feel it was the most common sense option. Well Hyundai agrees it seems as they start to take steps to show they are interested in Drifting. This is from InsideLine:
According to Inside Line, movie-goers should expect to see more tire-burning action from Hyundai’s new Genesis Coupe than what’s already been shown. It seems that the Korean car company has already sent Universal a bright red Genesis Coupe SE powered by the turbocharged four-cylinder engine. This news lends some credence to our opinion that the turbo mill will likely be the tuner’s choice, though the big six cylinder is likely to be plenty for most drivers who don’t want to modify their car. While we’re not waiting on the edge of our seats for the fourth installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise, we think that it’ll be pretty cool to see the Genesis Coupe alongside such performance-car stalwarts as the new Nissan GT-R and Subaru STI.
Although Fast and Furious 4 isn’t scheduled for release until the summer of 2009, Hyundai has already committed to providing a red turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder Genesis Coupe SE to the mix. It will have a returning cast members include Paul Walker and Vin Diesel.
